NATO Should Shoot Down Stray Russian Drones, Latvia Says
- ‘NATO must adapt to the new reality,’ Rinkevics says
- Latvia has no fighter jets of its own, relies on air policing
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Latvia’s president said NATO needs to have the ability to shoot down Russian drones that stray into member states’ territory as he called for increased air defenses on the alliance’s eastern flank.
“NATO must adapt to the new reality — and we must shoot down drones,” President Edgars Rinkevics said in an interview on Bloomberg Television in San Francisco on Thursday. “We must protect the territory of the alliance.”